Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Desiree Hellegers talks with Jamie Partridge, of KBOO's own Labor Radio. Jamie Partridge is also a retired postal worker, a labor activist, and a member of the National Association of Letter Carriers. He talks with Desiree about the fallout from the appointment of Tru... Read more

  In their Left and the Law segment this month, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about a wave of progressive prosecutors sweeping the country, including the recent election of Chesa Boudin as San Francisco’s district attorney, Jan and Mike also offer their take on Mult... Read more

Mole bill Resnick talks to Emory Mort Portland activist and our street historian, who has been to over 50 BLM Protests over the last two months, and you can see his views on Facebook. They discuss the great victory Portland protestors won in driving Trump’s Federal troop... Read more

Patricia Kullberg speaks with University of Washington medical student Naomi Nkinsi about how racist ideas about African-American bodies are embedded in medical science and how students, doctors and scholars are challenging so-called “race-based medicine” which was suppo... Read more

Norm Diamond revisits a dystopian novel published 35 years ago and set in our year 2020. Would we have acted any differently if we’d taken the author’s warnings seriously? The novel is Goodman 2020 by Fred Pfeil, an Oregonian for some of the time he was writing it. This ... Read more

Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Insurgency and its Future: Mole bill Resnick talks to Emory Mort Portland activist and our street historian, who has been to over 50 BLM Protests over the last two months, and yo... Read more

Desiree Hellegers talks with Pedro Anglada Cordero and Susan Anglada Bartley, members of Portland's Black Lives Matter resistance community, about how they turned a phone call from Mayor Ted Wheeler's reelection campaign headquarters into a youtube video calling for Whee... Read more

  Denise Morris Hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes:   The Occupation of Portland: Bill Resnick will be talking to Emory Mort, a people's historian in the streets of Portland, attending over 50 demonstrations. Emory reports on the Black Lives Matter George... Read more

Bill Resnick will be talking to Emory Mort, a people's historian in the streets of Portland, attending over 50 demonstrations. Emory reports on the Black Lives Matter George Floyd insurgency in Portland and its opposition to the Portland police and more recently Federal ... Read more

Desiree Hellegers talks with Sarah Chivers, an adjunct professor of Sociology at several universities in the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area. They discuss the challenges that adjuncts in Oregon face with the approach of Fall semester, and how being a primary caregiv... Read more